Dynamic Healthcare M&A Database

Acquiring Party	Flextronics International Ltd. (NASDAQ:FLEX), a major global provider of electronics manufacturing services.
Transferring Party	Avail Medical Products, Inc., a US based manufacturer of disposable medical devices.
Sector	Medical Devices
Date	August 30, 2007
Analysis Together with its pending $3.6b Solectron acquisition, buying Avail enhances Flextroinics' medical design, manufacturing and logistics capabilities for disposable medical device products, hand held diagnostics, drug delivery devices and imaging, lab and life sciences equipment. Enables Flextronics to provide customers with accelerated product development and simplified supply chains. Avail's expected '07 sales are $250m. Deal terms not disclosed. (Operating in 20 countries, Solectron is a $10.6b contract manufacturing service company catering to providers of networking, telecommunications, computing, storage, consumer, automotive, industrial, medical, self-service automation and aerospace and defense products.)
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Dynamic Healthcare M&A Database - 3Q07